Storage forum: What takes up the most space on your hard drive?

I have Halo 2 and Spore installed, as well as iTunes music. It only takes up about 15 GB though. It is a new computer, so its 250 GB HD will get filled up over time

Samusgravity

I've got 3 physical hard drives in my system.
The primary drive (120GB) is split into three partitions:
B:\> A small BitLocker partition at the beginning of the drive (1.5GB)
C:\> VistaDrive, my OS drive, which is full of programs (mainly under the Steam folder (103GB)
X:\> SwapDrive, a small partition at the end of the drive filled with my primary scratch file (i.e. Virtual Memory) (6.5GB)

My secondary drive (250GB) is about full and dedicated entirely to Media, mainly three entire series of TV shows (DS9, Voyager, and Atlantis), 5 different anim series, a bunch of random videos, my music library (about 20GB, all re-encoded as WMAs for quality and space), and random ISOs.

My third drive (40GB) is a "to-be-sorted" folder where all my recently aquired stuff goes before it's converted and/or organized. It also contains my secondary scratch file (16GB) and scratch space for my video editing.

I think that's all my drives. Oh, and they're all Sata II.

Oh, and I've got a 4GB flash drive for ReadyBoost purposes.

-IAmTheDonut

I'm guessing my pictures take up the most space, than iTunes Video downloads and music. I probably have millions of documents, but that takes up the least space. Thank God for Windows Home Server and it's compatibility with both Mac's and PC's (I built my own, not the HP one that sucks); I keep all my stuff on there.

I have nothing I'd rather not discuss and only a few games and videos. However I do firmware development on multiple types of processors. Between development and analysis tools, my Program Files directory has 193 programs in it, all of which I use at some time or another. I also have archival copies of recent jobs and local copies of 7 web sites of which I maintain 5 on my server plus 2 intranet sites for my own use (total of all 7 = 4GB) along with all my taxes since 1991. I have over 6GB of music and audio recordings, almost 8GB of magazines in PDF format, almost 7GB of photos, and over 3GB of saved email. My browser bookmarks (favorites) file is over 6MB. My C; drive is 250GB, My D: drive is 500GB, and my NAS backup server is 1TB. The specs on my primary Linux machine are identical in all respects.

I'm a hobbiest picture=taker, and have somehow taken about 10,000 photos. 48.6 gigs.

My first HD had 20 megs.

Main Computer has 1 Raptor 150GB & 320GB
2nd Computer has 2x160GB
3rd Computer, my Server has 120GB boot (3 Partitions) 2x500GB, 1 320GB, 1 USB 300GB, & 1 USB 250GB

Music: 230GB
Videos: 81.5GB
Backups: 116GB (Myself, Family & Friends)
Graphics: 21GB
Install: 27.5GB (ALL Programs over the Years)
Data: 1.15GB
I could ADD MORE as I have a LOT of data spread across ALL 3 systems for Redundancy.

NOTE: this does NOT include my Laptop's 160GB & various 20 and 40 GB Laptop Hard Drives and USB Keys (1x16GB, 1x8GB, 2x4GB, 3x2GB, 1x1GB, & 1x512MB)

159,502,078,128 bytes in 30,515 files. OK so I like music.

I save all my e-mail my family sends me. Is this to much to store.
How do I down load to save on soft ware? And about how many games is to many to save. Thank you Janmwimp1957@yahoo.com

I've learned over the years to limit what I keep on my pc's harddrive. Photos, music, games, business files are a no-no.

I'm not saying no photos or music. But some. There is no need to have each and every song of your music library and each and every pic of your family on the thing.

Games, there is only so much one can do where they're concerned. But you don't have too many of those. Your business files ( i.e. receipts of online bills paid) need to be moved to flash drive.

The key here is moderation. People have to understand not to put everything on the pc. If it is overtaxed, it will have an attack and crash, just like it happens to humans when they go so much and then have a heart attack.

Moderation and also if you don't need it get rid of it.

Steam games take up a lot of room. I have a small library (Portal, Source SDK, Dinomite Deluxe Demo) and it takes up:
8.26GB!

The question is how much space. How do I determine how much space is used by documents, games, etc.?

Looking at my space availability on the hard drive I notice Vista Home Edition takes up around 38GB it doesn't leave much space for other things (60GB). I will be professionally repartitioning and installing Windows XP and its associated drivers to improve performance.